The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-05-12


William II. Seward and Frederick T.
Trelinghtysen; Ex.Secretaries Of the
Treasury Thomas Ewing, Robert j.
Walker, william NJ. Meredith, Thomas
Corwin, James Guthrie, Howell Cobb,
Philip +, Thomas, John A. Dix, Salmon
P. Chase, William Pitt Fessenden, Lot
M. Morrill, and Charles ]. Folger; Ex-
Secretaries of War John Bell, James M.
Porter. William wilkins, George w.
Crawford, Charles M. Conrad, John b.
Floyd, Edwin M. Stanton, Lorenzo
Thomas, u. 8. Grant and John A. Raw
lings; Ex-Secretaries of the Navy George
E. Badger, John T. Mason, William b.
Preston, William A. Graham, John p.
Kennedy, Isaac Toucey, Gideon Wells,
Adolph E. Borie and William H. Hunt /;
Ex-Secretaries of Interior Robert Nc
Clelland, Jacob Thompson, Caleb b.
Smith, Orville H. Browning and Zacha.
riah Chandler; -Postmasters General
John Mclean, Amos Kendall, Francis
Granger, Charles A. Wickliffe, Cave
johnson, Jacob Collamer, Nathan K. Hall,
Samuel D. Hubbard, James Campbell,
Montgomery Blair, William Dennison,
Alexander w. Randall, Marshall Jewell,
Horace Maynard and Timothy Q. Howe;
Ex-Attorneys General Roger B. Taney,
John J. Crittenden, Nathan Clifford,
Reverdy johnson, John J. Crittenden,
Caleb Cushing, Edward Bates, James
Speed, Henry Stanbery and Amos T.
Akerman.
The list of justices of the Supreme
Court of the United States who have
died within the post-bellum period con.
tains the names of John Mclean, of
Ohio; James M. Wayne, of Georgia !;
Roger B. Taney, of Maryland; John
Catron, of Tennessee; Samuel Nelson,
of New York; Robert G. Grier, of Penn
sylvania; BENJAMIN r. Curtis, of Massa-
chusetts; Nathan Clifford, of Maine ;
Noah H. Swayne, of Ohio; David Davis,
of Illinois; Salmon P. Chase, of Ohio,
and Ward Hunt, of New York. Of those
who retired by resignation John A.
Campbell, of Alabama, and William
Strong, of Pennsylvania, survive.
The ex-Speakers of the House of Rep
resentatives who survive are r. NJ. T.
Hunter, of Virginia, Speaker of the
Twenty-sixth Congress, from 1889 to
1s41, born in. 1909 (Mr. Hunter was re-
Gently appointed fourth-class postmas-
ter in Virginia.; Robert G. Winthrop, of
Massachusetts,, Thirtieth Congress, from
1S47 to 1S49, born In 1909; Nathaniel p.
Banks, of Massachusetts, Thirty-fourth
Congress, 1856 to 1857, born in 1915;
Galusha A. Grow, of Pennsylvania,
Thirty-seventh Congress, 1861 to 1868,
born in 1884; James g. Blaine, of Maine,
Forty-frst, Forty-second and Forty
third Congresses, from 1869 to 1875, born
in 1880; Samuel J. Randall, of Pennsyl-
vania, Forty-fourth, Forty-ffth and
Forty-sixth Congresses, from 1875 to
1881 ]. Warren Keifer, of Ohio, Forty
seventh Congress, 1881 to 1888, born in
1885, and John G.. Carlisle, of Kentucky,
Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Con-
crosses, 1888 to 1887, born in 1885.
OF the entire membership of the pres
ent Senate, John Sherman is the only
senator who was chosen prior to
the Inauguration of the civil war. He
was elected March 81, 1851, to fill the
unexpired term of Salmon p. Chase, who
resigned to accept the treasury portfolio
in President Lincoln's Cabinet. Mr..
Chase had been chosen to succeed George
E. Pugh, and, singular to relate, Mr..
Pugh was originally elected to succeed
Mr.. Chase, who was the successor of the
distinguished William Allen, uncle of
Judge Thurman. Mr.. Thurman sue
ceeded Ben Wade, and Mr.. Sherman,
after he retired from the Hayes Cabinet
as Secretary of the Treasury, was chosen
to succeed Judge Thurman, the original
successor of Judge Thurman having been
James A. Garfield, who was elected Presi-
dent before his term as senator began,
and who resigned the senatorship to &C
cept the presidency, March 4, 1881, which
was subsequently filled by the choice of
John Sherman. J. j. NOAH.